Kwah (Kwa), also known as Baa (''Bàː''Idiatov, Dmitry, Mark Van de Velde, Tope Olagunju and Bitrus Andrew. 2017.
Results of the first AdaGram survey in Adamawa and Taraba States, Nigeria
'. 47th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics (CALL) (Leiden, Netherlands).), is a Niger–Congo language of uncertain affiliation; the more it has been studied, the more divergent it appears. Joseph Greenberg counted it as one of the

Bambukic languages The Bambukic Trans-Benue or Yungur–Jen languages form a proposed branch of the provisional Savanna languages, a reduced form of the Waja–Jen branch of the old Adamawa languages family (G7, G9, G10). They are spoken in north eastern Nigeria. T ...

of the Adamawa family. Boyd (1989) assigned it its own branch within Waja–Jen. Kleinewillinghöfer (1996) removed it from Waja–Jen as an independent branch of Adamawa. When Blench (2008) broke up Adamawa, Kwah became a provisional independent branch of his larger Savannas family. Blench (2019) lists the locations of Baa as Gyakan and Kwa towns (located near Munga) in Numan LGA,

Adamawa State Adamawa state () is a state in the North-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, bordered by Borno to the northwest, Gombe to the west, and Taraba to the southwest, while its eastern border forms part of the national border with Cameroon. It tak ...

, Nigeria. One Baa-speaking person (singular) is ''raBáà'' (sg.), and more than one would be ''Báà'' (pl.); the language is referred to by speakers as ''nyaa Báà''. The Baa varieties in each of the two towns differ primarily in phonology. Baa traditional religion has two main deities, Gbandima and Kassimin.Möller Nwadigo, Mirjam
Baa
AdaGram.

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Baa (Kwa)
Adamawa Languages Project.

by Mirjam Möller Nwadigo. AdaGram. *ELAR collection
A documentation project of Baa, a language of Nigeria
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